Literature and Ontology

Alain Badiou

Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m.

Co-sponsored by Departments of French and Comparative Literature

Lecture by Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Collège International de Philosophie. In addition to novels, plays and political essays, he has published many philosophical works including Logics of Worlds, The Adventure of French Philosophy, Being and Event, Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy, and Metapolitics.

Book Event

Emily ApterProfessor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU; author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature.

Bruno BosteelsProfessor of Romance Studies, Cornell University; author of Badiou and Politics and Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror. He has translated multiple works by Alain Badiou.

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